This page is for Maddy, Miguel, Everett and Hannah C.




4.2 Growth of Medieval Towns By: Hannah C.



- medieval towns were located next to rivers and lakes
for trade

-contributions to the growth of medieval towns:
- trade
- food more plentiful

- charter gave rights to townspeople allowing them to
govern themselves


4.3 Guilds By: Hannah C.



-guilds were people in the same craft or trade

- steps to become a guild:
- apprentice
- apprentice must create masterpiece
- becomes master after making masterpiece

-Craft guilds:
- blacksmith
-baker
-stonemasons

-guilds help when families are sick ( food and money)

4.4 Trade and Commerce by Miguel M.

-they had fairs that are similar to our fleamarkerts
-merchants gained power by trading with others
-Jews:
-were not offered good jobs
-could not own land
-blamed for everything


4.5 Homes and Households by Miguel M.

-poor people houses:
-dark
-smoky
-wood
-rich people houses:
-many levels
-big
-house problems:
-cold
-small
-smoky
-low cellings
-most children died before age 7 because it was very diseasful there
-girls were married as young as 12
-girls ran the house and did not work



4.6 Diesease and Medical Treatment by Maddy Long

-lots of diseases
-easy to catch
some common diseases were Leprosy, Measles, Scarlet Disease, and Bubonic Plague
-Doctors would:
-let them bleed the disease out which only made it worse
-they wouod use herbs
-If an outbreak of disese ocurred people blamed the Jews



4.7 Crime and Punishment by Maddy Long

-towns were very dangerous
-lots of pickpockets
-no law enforcements
-some ways for deciding guilt an innocence was:
-they threw them into a well, if they floated they were guilty because they were "rejected by the water"
-if they sunk they were innocent
also they put their hand in boling water if the burn didnt heal in a certain amount of time they were guilty
-some ways criminals were punished were:
-put you into stocks
-exucution
-later in the 12th century they made something called common law